Venezuelan Landmark – El Palito Refinery v1.0
Venezuelan Landmarks – El Palito Refinery
El Palito refinery is one of the largest oil refining complexes in Venezuela. It is located in the Puerto Cabello municipality, near the town of El Palito, on the coasts of Carabobo State, in Venezuela. It currently has a maximum processing capacity of 140,000 barrels of crude per day. This complex, controlled by the state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), supplied fuel and derivatives to the central west of the country through a system of multiple pipelines that supplied several distribution plants in central and central-west Venezuela. In 2017 their production was semi-paralyzed due to a strong fire. It has recently put back in operation with a very low processing capacity [Wikipedia].
To quickly get in the air and see the refinery, you should take-off from RWY11 of the Puerto Cabello Airport (SVPC), then turn to your left (or right, but be carefull with the mountains) to a 270 deg heading, fly low (around 1,000 ft) and slow (around 100 knots) and look for the refinery to the coast. Watch out if flying too low and slow, because of the frequent explosions!.
More details about credits, installation instructions, etc., are given in the included ReadMe in the download file.
Hope you all download and enjoy El Palito Refinery as much as we do!.
edpatino
July 24, 2021
NEXT IN LINE:
If all is Ok after SU5, next airports in line (Airport Enhancements) as of July 25, 2021 will be (that could change):
KTMB (Miami Executive)
SVBC (Barcelona)
SVPC (Puerto Cabello)
SVBM (Barquisimeto)
SVJC (Josefa Camejo – Paraguana)
GPS Coordinates: 10.48294903714508, -68.1178245600431
